Beishui Liao, is a distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars, Ministry of Education; Qiushi distinguished professor of Zhejiang University and doctoral supervisor of School of Philosophy (logic) and College of Computer Science and Technology (artificial intelligence and applied computer technologies). He was granted his PhD degree by College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University in 2006. He is currently the director of the Institute of Logic and Cognition of Zhejiang University and his main research interests are: logic in AI, explainable AI and AI ethics & law.

Leendert van der Torre, is the head of Computer Science Department at the University of Luxembourg , the president of IfColog (the international federation for computational logic) and the founder of AI RoboLab. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science at the Erasmus University in 1997. He is a leader of the research area of moral logic and multi-agent system and is the founder of input/output logic. His research interests include deontic logic, logic in security and most recently cognitive robotics.